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This is What Meditation Does to Your Face

Here is your original face.

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The Buddha's Hopeful Invitation to Our Human Family

The Buddha’s model offers us a balanced self-image and a true hope.

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Taking Refuge

Daily, we are witnessing onslaughts on basic human rights and disregard for the safeguards of good democracy. We may wonder, "As a Buddhist, how do I practice with all of this?"

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Is Sōtō Zen Practice actually useful right now?

Zen can be a means to build capacity to care for one another while stretching ourselves and the world to transform.

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Each Breath Gives Life

Combine this with our koan for the 2025 spring practice period, and you’ve set yourself up with some lovely contemplation in the coming months.

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Zen and the Big Questions

One of the things I love most about our tradition is that it’s the only religion whose central and uncompromising dogma is to accept nothing as dogma.

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Member Spotlight: Sosan Flynn

Meet our Guiding Teacher, Sosan Flynn!

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Member Spotlight: Myoshin Diane Benjamin

Meet Myoshin Diane Benjamin!

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L.A. Fires: A Letter from Angelino Sangha Members

We share this not just to ask people to give, but for any expanded conversations about ongoing histories of race and place that complicate narratives on mainstream media.

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Come Close, Do Nothing

This teaching is asking us to come close to all experiences – pleasant, unpleasant, neutral – and see what happens next when we don’t turn away.

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Member Spotlight: Jūken Zach Fehst

Meet Jūken Zach Fehst!

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Member Spotlight: Rev. Jinzu Minna Jain

Meet Rev. Jinzu Minna Jain!

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Becoming a Zen Practitioner

I realized that Zen was not just something I wanted to do once in a while, but that it was something I wanted to be. It was not about my activities alone, but about my life.